Editions

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099595823

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £8.99

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A key work of proto-feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and impassioned argument is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago.

Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contribution to society. It was a cry for justice from a woman with no power other than her pen and it put in motion a drive towards greater equality between men and women, a movement which continues to this day.

‘The first great piece of feminist writing’ Independent

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099595823

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Mary Wollstonecraft's words ring as true today - and are as little heeded by government - as when she wrote them, 200 years ago, in her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

    Guardian

  • The first pebble in the later avalanche of the women's rights movement

    Melvyn Bragg, Guardian

  • A book that was bold in its time and is now considered the notable forerunner of the women's movement

    New York Times

  • The first great piece of feminist writing

    Independent

  • Changed the world for generations of women to come

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) was a writer and founding feminist philosopher. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is her most famous work, but she also wrote novels, treatises and a history of the French Revolution, many of whose events she witnessed first-hand in Paris. She died eleven days after giving birth to her daughter, Mary Shelley.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Read women in 2019: VINTAGE classic and new female authors

Join us at VINTAGE in a year of challenging ourselves to listen, hear and respond to some of the greatest female writers history has to offer. From Margaret Atwood to Mary Wollstonecraft, revisit your favourites, discover new voices and fill your bookshelf and your year with women’s voices. They matter.

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